# Lemon Chicken

High-protein lemon chicken meal prep packed with flavor and ideal for muscle building, weight loss, or staying on track with weekly meals.

- Servings: 5 servings
- Total time: 30 min
- Category: Dinner
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- Avocado Spray Oil
- 2 Large Heads Broccoli
- 200 g Buk Choy
- 1 kg Chicken Thigh
- 0.5 Cup Chicken Stock
- 5 Garlic Cloves
- 2 Lemons
- 80 g Honey
- 4 g Onion Powder
- 30 ml Low Sodium Soy Sauce
- 10 ml Sesame Oil
- 15 g Corn Flour
- 300 g Basmati Rice
- 600 ml Cold Water
- Salt
- Spring Onion
- Sesame Seeds

## Instructions

1. Make lemon sauce, cut up vegetables, and dice chicken.
2. In a mixing bowl add vegetable or chicken stock, honey, onion powder, low sodium soy sauce, sesame oil, and corn flour, ground white pepper to taste, then whisk to combine.
3. Grate garlic with microplane and add to the sauce.
4. Cut lemons in half, juice them and add to the sauce.
5. Place a pot of water on the stovetop over high heat and allow it to come to a boil.
6. Stand the broccoli up and slice around the core, separating all of those florets.
7. Trim up the florets and remove the woody end of the stem.
8. Cut off that root of the buk choy and slice into even size pieces.
9. Slice the chicken lengthwise through the center, rotate, and dice into bite-size pieces.
10. Add salt to the water and add in the broccoli and stems then blanch for about two minutes.
11. Add in the buk choy, push that down and cook for a further one minute to soften everything then strain it and place it straight into ice cold water to shock it.
12. Add basmati rice, cold water, and salt into a saucepan then place it onto a high heat.
13. Give it a quick mix to prevent any clumps, place on a lid, reduce the heat to low and cook for 12 minutes covered.
14. Turn it off the heat and then let it sit for four minutes with the lid still on.
15. Place a pan onto your stovetop and add a touch of avocado oil.
16. Add in your drained vegetables, add a pinch of salt and touch of crack black pepper, then sauté for about two to two and a half minutes.
17. Place the same pan back over a high heat, add avocado oil, and then add in all of the chicken.
18. Spread it out so it's not sitting on top of one another, cook this for a total of 10 minutes.
19. Lightly season with salt, then add sauce and mix around.
20. Cook for about one and a half to two minutes and then remove this from the stove top.
21. Place the rice onto one side of the container.
22. Add the vegetables in the middle and chicken on the remaining side.
23. Sprinkle sesame seeds on the rice and chicken.

## Equipment

- Mixing bowl
- Cutting board
- Knife
- Whisk
- Citrus juicer
- Pot
- Pan
- Spatula

## Tips

- Use chicken thigh for reheating and storing better
- Add sesame oil with garlic for a stir fry.
- Microwave on one minute bursts for roughly three minutes to reheat.

## Source

- Original video: https://youtu.be/WzfcDiEn0OA?si=_Q8pzRiOKbjgm3c3
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/71e84502-ae6d-42a2-a3e0-0da8cb5c1c0d
- Extracted: 2025-05-25

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